On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 1:12 AM, Maureen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Eastern Airlines failed due to bad management - very, very bad > management - who then blamed it on the unions. The fact that so > many years later you still think the unions killed the company shows > how successful their propaganda was. They had terrible management for sure, which contributed greatly to it's demise. But you can't ignore the extensive 18 month long strike by multiple unions simultaneously that made it impossible to operate the airline. Lorenzo and the unions were locked in a standoff that ultimately ended in the Airline going out of business. I would certainly assign a lot of responsibility to Lorenzo and other management, but the unions were very very far form innocent bystanders. As a side point - being in that union didn't really do anything for those employees but help them barely scrape by while they stood around for 18 months. Then they all lost their jobs. Not awesome. -Cameron ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:351831 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
